Under the auspices of the "Loburg Organ Summer" the Norwegian cathedral and concert oganist Dr. Tim Rishton gave some fifty visitors a concert on the Kahrling organ in Loburg's St Lawrence church.
How did a Norwegian artist come to the small and dreamy Loburg? Quite simply, in Norway he had read a description of the Kahrling organ and simply came to Loburg. In good German Tim Rishton greeted the visitors and wished them all "guten Appetit". After the brilliant concert and encore, he received as a gesture of thanks "just three roses, but very decoratively packaged".
"What did you come for today?", Roland Theuring [the concert organiser] asked the visitors. "In order to see the artist or to hear the music on the Kahrling organ?" Both were accomplished and the Norwegian's concert philosophy was implemented in Loburg.
"Closeness and communication.
Here's some great music. Come along and enjoy it" is the first of the cathedral and concert organist's three important basic principles.
"Let the music speak. I only play music that I really enjoy and that I want to share with others", is the second core principle, "programme choice".
Good music speaks to us and we have to be able to convey that.
If music has nothing to say we may as well not bother playing it".
Also the artist's third guiding principle, "historical authenticity" was apposite for the concert:
"technique and authentic performance practice has to serve the music, not the other way round".